Assembly Bill A6477

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to contribution and receipt limitations applicable to candidates for election to any public office

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A6477 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9558
Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14-114, El L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A2556

2021-A6477 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to contribution and receipt limitations applicable to candidates for election to any public office.

2021-A6477 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6477
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law,  in relation to contribution and
   receipt limitations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 14-114 of the election law, as
 amended by section 3 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of  2020,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  The following limitations apply to all contributions to candidates
 for election to any public office or for nomination for any such office,
 or for election to any party positions,  and  to  all  contributions  to
 political  committees  working directly or indirectly with any candidate
 to aid or participate in such candidate's nomination or election,  other
 than any contributions to any party committee or constituted committee:
   a. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of
 the  entire  state, or for nomination to any such office, no contributor
 may make a contribution to any candidate or political committee, partic-
 ipating in the state's public  campaign  financing  system  pursuant  to
 title  two  of this article and no such candidate or political committee
 may accept any contribution from any contributor, which is in the aggre-
 gate amount greater than eighteen thousand dollars divided equally among
 the primary and general election in an election cycle; provided however,
 that the maximum amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in  the
 aggregate,  from any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and
 sister, and the spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case
 of any nomination to public office an amount equivalent to  the  product
 of  the number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state,
 excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by  $.025,  and  in  the
 case  of  any  election for a public office, an amount equivalent to the

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10319-02-1
              

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